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ropes is almost impossible, and frequently the birds quit the neigh- 
bourhood altogether. It is not however the Falconidse only which 
suffer, I regret to say, from this pernicious habit of egg-taking. 
The Chough, the Buzzard, the Haven, and other of our rarest birds 
are doomed to become extinct at no very distant period, unless all 
true sportsmen, naturalists and lovers of nature generally, make 
an urgent and speedy protest against this unsportsmanlike mania. 
Few districts are left now in Great Britain where the Peregrine 
nests. Along our south coast, in Wales, and the west coast of 
Scotland, a few birds still build, also on the north and west coasts 
of Ireland, and last year a pair reared their nestlings on a northern 
moor in sight of Scaw Fell. 
It may be perhaps of some little interest to notice here some 
particulars of the taking of Peregrines on Hunstanton Cliff in the 
seventeenth century, kindly given me by Mr, Hamon le Strange of 
Hunstanton Hall. The number of Peregrines captured from 1G04 
to 1G53 by his ancestor Sir Hamon le Strange was eighty-seven. 
Tliis copy of the original most interesting table I shall be happy to 
show to any one anxious to see it on my paper being finished. 
And now we find ourselves with two sets of raw material, i.e., 
the Passage Hawks and the Eyesses, and I will endeavour to give 
you, in as few words as possible, the method by which this raw 
material is converted into such a priceless fabric as a well-trained 
Falcon or Tiercel. But before proceeding to do so, allow me to 
give you a short extract from ‘ The Gentleman’s Kecreation,’ a work 
in four parts by Nicholas Cox, published in 1097. On pages 31 
and 32 of his Part 2, entitled ‘a Treatise on Hawking and Falconry, 
Ac.,’ he says: “ General Instructions for an Ostrajer or Falconer.’ 
“Let his Jesses and Bewets be of good leather, having bells big and .shrill 
according to the proportion of the Hawk, with a hood that is bossed at the 
eyes and sizable for the head. He must use his Hawk in such manner that 
he may make her grow familiar with him, alone, or in company, and to that 
end he must often unhood and hood her again. In nine nights the Faulconer 
ought not to let his Hawkyoif^ at all, nor suffer her to pearch, but keep her 
during that time continually on his fist. When the Faulconer would call his 
Hawk, let him set her on the pearch, uidiood her and show her some food 
within his fist, call her so long till she come to it, then feed her therewith : 
if she come not, let her stand loithout food until she be very sharp-set. 
Observe this order for about nine days.” 
Firstly, the Pamuje Hawk. If you will kindly liark back, you 
